Classical galactosemia is caused by a deficiency in activity of the enzyme galactose-1-phosphate uridyl transferase (GALT), which, in turn, is caused by mutations at the GALT gene. The disorder exhibits considerable allelic heterogeneity and, at the end of 1998, more than 150 different base changes
Functional Analysis of the Mouse Galactose-1-Phosphate Uridyl Transferase (GALT) Promoter
โ Scribed by Nancy D. Leslie; Shuzhen Bai
- Book ID
- 115639794
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 2001
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 128 KB
- Volume
- 72
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1096-7192
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The frequency of variants of galactose-1-phosphate uridyl transferase was determined among the nine Greek populations by studying a sample of 1570 unselected individuals. Average frequency of normal allele GALT=0.942, galactosemia gen GALTG=0.0021 and the Duarte variant gene GALTD=0.0548 were observ
A newborn male was diagnosed as having a duplication of distal 9p material by GTG banding analysis. Gene dose studies for galactose-1-phosphate uridyl transferase (GALT) were performed on the patient, his mother (the balanced translocation carrier), a 3-year-old 47,XY +9p male control, a 30-year-old